IRAQ CRISIS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 12 March 1928, Page 9

IRAQ CRISIS

HAND OF THE SOVIET. SEEN IN TROUBLE. ‘ A NEWSPAPER’S ALLEGATION. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received 10.55 a.m. to-day. LONDON, March 11. The “Diailv Mail’s” Riga correspondent states: The Wahabis’s threatening attitude is due to Communist agitators, graduates from the Soviet’s international revolutionary university at Tiflis, who were sent to Arabia supplied with funds to start a rising last November. The Communists Internationale timed the Iraq crisis to coincide with King Amanullah’s visit to London for the purpose of demonstrating for his benefit the British Imperialistic policy, which Moscow alleges threatens Afghanistan. Bolshevik plans in Iraq are due to long years of attempts to inveigle Britain into a war with Mohammedans, hoping to set India aflame. —“'Sydney Sun” cable. IBN SAUD NOT RESPONSIBLE ANOTHE R- DECLARATION. Received 1.50 p.m. to-day. JERUSALEM, March 11. Sheik Harisa Abn Charisha, leader of the Benisnkhra tribe, does not believe that Ibn iSaud is implicated in the attack on Trans-Jordania. He says that Ibn Mashur, who was responsible for last month’s attack, was imprisoned at Haul, forced to disgorge his booty and to pay blood money to the injured tribes. —A.P.A. and “iSun. ”